Anti-corruption: Where the rebels have a cause.

For some strange reason, the first word that comes to mind when I here the word "corruption" happens to be "POLITICS"! (Pshh, as if there is corruption in politics, right?) 

(http://www.haitian-truth.org/prebendes-commissions-ou-pots-de-vin-a-l%E2%80%99oavct-des-compagnies-de-construction-de-la-rep-dominican-dom-toujours-a-la-affiche/corruption-2/)

 

Throughout history, corruption has just seemed to be trending every decade by people that are stereotyped as powerful, greedy, selfish, arrogant (do I carry on?). These are the people that will do anything to get to the top or are people who are hiding something that is almost way bigger than life, where if it were to get out, it could essentially destroy their lives and reputation. It does seem, however, that corruption is definitely becoming far more harder to control by the 'corrupt-ors', as the information a part of the corruption could be leaked for the world to find, thanks to the internet and social media.

(http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/14926/i-want-to-be-part-of-the-corruption-brigade-dont-you/)

Any information on any computer that is connected to the internet immediately faces the chance of being hacked by online, well, hackers. Although its quite a scary fact, I don't think anyone and I mean anyone would imagine this happening to them. Take Rupert Murdoch for example; his media firms were caught hacking into celebrities mobile phones about who they talked to, who they messaged and what their conversations were about. Most of the information that was basically stolen off of people was used to create stories in the tabloids that Murdoch's empire runs. These stories usually consisted of things that really didn't matter but, let's be real, we all wanted to know any inside scoop about celebrities. 

Someone who was a born hacker is Julian Assange. Assange is a Queensland-born owner of one of the most outlandish and notorious websites, WikiLeaks, that basically reports and presents the TRUTH behind what those in higher power than us, like the government and massive business empires, do behind closed doors to get away with immoral and most likely illicit actions. But does this make WikiLeaks a detrimental website that aims to inflict harmful and negative claims on people? The answer is simply, no.

(http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/julian-assange-leads-time-magazine-person-of-the-year-poll/story-e6frf7lf-1225967642823)

In my eyes, WikiLeaks is paramount in anti-corruption, where it aims to inform the public about the corrupupt acts that these groups and individuals are doing in confidentiality. It aims to find the truth about what is happening in this world and the crazy, unjust things that people are committing at the risk of so many innocent peoples lives. 

In 2010, Julian Assange and the team at WikiLeaks released a video, where we saw an innocent Iraqi family in Baghdad getting fired at and killed by the U.S. military, where two of the children within that family got badly injured. We also see other innocent by standers in the city getting shot and killed as they were trying to help the injured. You can bet that the U.S. government would not have been pleased about this and they tried to keep this video hidden from public eyes. It's leaks like these that make everyone thing, "what on earth are governments doing to this world!?"

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0)

Social media is one of those outlets where people express a lot about what they feel about a topic and provide their own opinions on matters in the world. So, in this case, it most definitely helps spread awareness about things like this and makes it go viral. Social media itself has the power to bring people together to fight for what's right. To see such a sad turn of events happen to people around the world due to the war, really puts in perspective about what we should do to help stop this nonsense and create as much peace equality throughout the world.

This video leak had put Julian Assange in a lot of problems that led to legal battles for him. But what's worse, is that people where questioning about who this man was and hated him for what he did. But, what did he do?

Show the world how untrustworthy the U.S. government is, fighting battles in the middle east with innocent people who are unarmed?

Get on to WikiLeaks and look at the facts. You might be surprised when you have a look at what's going on in the "real' world.